http://fizzwiki.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Utility_Monster_TrackUtility Monster Track - Revision history2026-10-28T21:16:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3http://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1792&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 07:08, 17 October 20262026-10-17T07:08:20Z<p></p>
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</table>ShankaraFizzhttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1461&oldid=prevLattaio Meimnagaan JS at 10:09, 16 July 20262026-07-16T10:09:05Z<p></p>
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</table>Lattaio Meimnagaan JShttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1459&oldid=prevLattaio Meimnagaan JS at 09:58, 16 July 20262026-07-16T09:58:23Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This concept can also apply to improvised solos, where a musician has a stroke of total genius and plays [https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?si=C9XzS_pCpJKumAc9&t=263 a solo out of no where that seems to transcend reality itself with how incredible it is], though Michael League might [https://youtu.be/t7ZlZAGxgyg?si=z3dUrBiQgjVQzKRb&t=51 disagree with this]. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This concept can also apply to improvised solos, where a musician has a stroke of total genius and plays [https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?si=C9XzS_pCpJKumAc9&t=263 a solo out of no where that seems to transcend reality itself with how incredible it is], though Michael League might [https://youtu.be/t7ZlZAGxgyg?si=z3dUrBiQgjVQzKRb&t=51 disagree with this]. </div></td></tr>
</table>Lattaio Meimnagaan JShttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1458&oldid=prevLattaio Meimnagaan JS: added headings2026-07-16T09:57:17Z<p>added headings</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of the proposed reasons why this phenomenon happens is due to the hypothesis that artists are divided into two general groups: Those that cultivate inspiration (could be referred to affectionately as "right brained musicians"), and those have developed a reliable method for outputting music, even when not inspired (could be referred to affectionately as "left brained musicians"). Inspiration is that mystery thing no one fully understands, where artistic output just happens at a level beyond conscious knowledge via some crazy [[wikipedia:Dual_process_theory#System_1|system 1]] magic, or divine intervention, or whatever you believe in. A reliable method is a personal developed method of writing music formed through thousands of hours of consistent practice and [[Fizz De Novism|forcing of output]]. Because inspiration/divine intervention/neurological-magic is of limited supply and is something that comes and goes without warning (or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxR6Zi1euvc when you turn 30] if you are a doomer about this sort of thing), musicians that rely entirely on it only hit lightning in a bottle a few times in their life, thus resulting in these musical utility monsters. But this is just one hypothesis. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of the proposed reasons why this phenomenon happens is due to the hypothesis that artists are divided into two general groups: Those that cultivate inspiration (could be referred to affectionately as "right brained musicians"), and those have developed a reliable method for outputting music, even when not inspired (could be referred to affectionately as "left brained musicians"). Inspiration is that mystery thing no one fully understands, where artistic output just happens at a level beyond conscious knowledge via some crazy [[wikipedia:Dual_process_theory#System_1|system 1]] magic, or divine intervention, or whatever you believe in. A reliable method is a personal developed method of writing music formed through thousands of hours of consistent practice and [[Fizz De Novism|forcing of output]]. Because inspiration/divine intervention/neurological-magic is of limited supply and is something that comes and goes without warning (or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxR6Zi1euvc when you turn 30] if you are a doomer about this sort of thing), musicians that rely entirely on it only hit lightning in a bottle a few times in their life, thus resulting in these musical utility monsters. But this is just one hypothesis. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It should be noted that utility monster tracks are not to be ashamed of. By their very name and nature, they make an artists entire career worth it. It is difficult to spell out just how good some UMTs actually are. One UMT is worth 20 mediocre tracks having to be made just to get to it. The non-UMTs of a musican with UMTs in their library aren't definitionally bad either, they can be really good. It's just about relative difference. UMTs should be seen as very inspiring, and very good news; go make music. your next session could be a utility monster track! </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It should be noted that utility monster tracks are not to be ashamed of. By their very name and nature, they make an artists entire career worth it. It is difficult to spell out just how good some UMTs actually are. One UMT is worth 20 mediocre tracks having to be made just to get to it. The non-UMTs of a musican with UMTs in their library aren't definitionally bad either, they can be really good. It's just about relative difference. UMTs should be seen as very inspiring, and very good news; go make music. your next session could be a utility monster track! </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdums against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our burnt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdums against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our burnt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The analogy to UMTs is just referencing that logarithmic difference of goodness in a population or set of things where a small percentage of those things have way more "good units" than the others do. The name however was mostly selected because it's funny above any other reason.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The analogy to UMTs is just referencing that logarithmic difference of goodness in a population or set of things where a small percentage of those things have way more "good units" than the others do. The name however was mostly selected because it's funny above any other reason.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Lattaio Meimnagaan JShttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1457&oldid=prevLattaio Meimnagaan JS at 09:50, 16 July 20262026-07-16T09:50:07Z<p></p>
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</table>Lattaio Meimnagaan JShttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1383&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 20:59, 15 July 20262026-07-15T20:59:53Z<p></p>
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</table>ShankaraFizzhttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1382&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 20:55, 15 July 20262026-07-15T20:55:33Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This concept can also apply to improvised solos, where a musician has a stroke of total genius and plays [https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?si=C9XzS_pCpJKumAc9&t=263 a solo out of no where seems to transcend reality itself with how incredible it is], though Michael League might [https://youtu.be/t7ZlZAGxgyg?si=z3dUrBiQgjVQzKRb&t=51 disagree with this]. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This concept can also apply to improvised solos, where a musician has a stroke of total genius and plays [https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?si=C9XzS_pCpJKumAc9&t=263 a solo out of no where <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>seems to transcend reality itself with how incredible it is], though Michael League might [https://youtu.be/t7ZlZAGxgyg?si=z3dUrBiQgjVQzKRb&t=51 disagree with this]. </div></td></tr>
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</table>ShankaraFizzhttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1297&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 23:15, 9 July 20262026-07-09T23:15:14Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdums against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">brunt </del>out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdums against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">burnt </ins>out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td></tr>
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</table>ShankaraFizzhttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1296&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 23:14, 9 July 20262026-07-09T23:14:43Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">absurdum </del>against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our brunt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">absurdums </ins>against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our brunt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The analogy to UMTs is just referencing that logarithmic difference of goodness in a population or set of things where a small percentage of those things have way more "good unites" than the others do. The name however was mostly selected because it's funny above any other reason.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The analogy to UMTs is just referencing that logarithmic difference of goodness in a population or set of things where a small percentage of those things have way more "good unites" than the others do. The name however was mostly selected because it's funny above any other reason.</div></td></tr>
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</table>ShankaraFizzhttp://fizzwiki.com/index.php?title=Utility_Monster_Track&diff=1295&oldid=prevShankaraFizz at 23:13, 9 July 20262026-07-09T23:13:43Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It should be noted that utility monster tracks are not to be ashamed of. By their very name and nature they make an artists entire career worth it. It is difficult to spell out just how good some UMTs actually are. One UMT is worth 20 mediocre tracks having to be made just to get to it. The non-UMTs of a musican with UMTs in their library aren't definitionally bad either, they can be really good. It's just about relative difference. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It should be noted that utility monster tracks are not to be ashamed of. By their very name and nature<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>they make an artists entire career worth it. It is difficult to spell out just how good some UMTs actually are. One UMT is worth 20 mediocre tracks having to be made just to get to it. The non-UMTs of a musican with UMTs in their library aren't definitionally bad either, they can be really good. It's just about relative difference. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">UMTs should be seen as very inspiring, and very good news; go make music. your next session could be a utility monster track! </ins> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdum against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our brunt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name "Utility Monster Track" is in reference to the philosophical idea of a [[wikipedia:Utility_monster|utility monster]], which is a hypothetical being that experiences orders of magnitude higher levels of pain or pleasure than all other agents in a system. Thought experiments around utility monsters ask us to think about to what degree do we give extra ethical weight to a single moral patient that is experiencing these logarithmically extreme valance (the intrinsic felt goodness or badness of a moment of experience or part of experience) states when looking at an entire population of moral patients and agents. Utility Monsters are usually used in reductio ad absurdum against [[wikipedia:Utilitarianism|classical utilitarianism]], in which a hypothetical is raised such as "if there was a single person in the world named Georgo (Jor-joh) that received 40 trillion pleasure units when he listened to a new fizz track, does that mean we should enslave every single musician on earth and just force them to make fizz all day so that Georgo could experience his 40 trillion pleasure units per fizz song, which would bring the net happiness in the universe up by an order of magnitude? I mean surely we must, given that Georgo's happiness would dwarf the net suffering of our brunt out fizz musicians we're holding at gunpoint and forcing to mine thingonium all day". </div></td></tr>
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